Chelsea Spencer

Garlanded pig, drawing

Garlanded pig, drawing, back view, with card notation from Beaumont Hall, Lancaster

Did not realize how much I needed Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones's utterly adorable drawings of pigs (thread). First up, front & back views of a prized pig adorned with a flowered garland, from Lancaster @darthbluesky.bsky.social @themerl.bsky.social eb-j.org/browse-artwo...

This is a laundry list of rhetorical strategies to defend the adoption of a given technology for the purposes of advancing an ideology & economic regime: inevitability, unquestioning praise of “innovation,” buy-in from concerned stakeholders, assurances that partnership is not capitulation. 1/n

Drawing the Disordered River in Late-Renaissance Tuscany

How did Renaissance states track and record floods? At what point did these disasters go from being thought of as one-offs to signs of a more systemic crisis? I enjoyed thinking through these and similar questions in my work on Florentine water maps, out now with Grey Room!
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“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

I gotta say I find a lot of AI discourse around higher ed very confusing. "if ChatGPT can write your essays is college even worth it?" did people think math teachers were assigning problem sets because *they* couldn't figure out the answers?

If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.

FREE Ebooks: Abolish the Border, Abolish the Police In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and police repression, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about border and poli...

Another world is possible if we fight for it.

PSA: if you like me have a 🗻 of student debt and are confused and worried rn, these folks are amazingly helpful: freestudentloanadvice.org

😭Very disappointing to see SB37 pass on a party line vote. Institutions of higher education did NOT ask for this bill. Faculty overwhelmingly testified against it. This is an unnecessary and disastrous bill that makes Texas, with Florida, a leader in dismantling higher ed. 1/

2025 Workshops Schedule — Costs of Architecture The Costs of Architecture Network is a new forum for scholars to discuss works in progress that address questions related to costs in the history of architecture and the built environment.

Super excited about how the Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops are shaping up!

First workshop is June 12, 11am–1pm ET, w/ papers by @bryannorwood.bsky.social and Maryia Rusak and response by @hydetimothy.bsky.social.

Details & registration: costsofarchitecture.org

Student: Teacher, why do we learn?

Socrates: For life!

Freire: For liberation!

Dewey: For democracy!

Neoliberal EduWonks: To mitigate overhead costs for employers and increase future projections of GDP!

BREAKING: We just got wind of Republicans' higher education bill text for reconciliation. We skimmed it. It's the most dangerous Higher-Ed bill in history.

It strips the Dept of Ed of virtually every authority to cancel student debt. Eliminates every repayment program. Abolishes subsidized loans.

You don't have to finish the dissertation. But you do have to submit it.

This is so fundamentally illegal that the word "illegal" should appear in any headline about this lark that Trump got after getting amped up watching TV coverage.

All universities right now need to be making this case to the public why universities and our scientific research matters. But let’s promote our humanities and social sciences too!

Thousands of jobs. Cleaner transit. Less traffic. A direct line from Dallas to Houston.

That’s what this project could’ve meant for Texas— but instead, the Trump Administration shut it down.

American Rendition: Rümeysa Öztürk’s Journey From Ph.D. Scholar to Trump Target Languishing in Louisiana Cell “So horrifying and so heartbreaking”: Öztürk’s close friend provides an intimate look into one of the hundreds of foreign students who have had their visas revoked — and in dozens of instances have…

Hundreds of scholars have had their visas revoked and dozens have been detained.

What’s exceptional about Öztürk’s case is that her detention was caught on camera.

What’s scariest, immigration lawyers say, is how little is known about all the others.

Hours ago, @politico.com revealed that DOGE is working with DHS on automating mass deportation efforts — likely explaining why many US citizens, green card holders, and even a Canadian (in Canada) got threatening emails last night terminating “your parole” and telling them to leave the US in 7 days.

Two Calls to Defend Our Universities POSTED BY HANK REICHMAN The following resolutions from the Academic Council of the University of California Academic Senate and from the University of Massachusetts Amherst Academic Senate were pub…

More of this, please! academeblog.org/2025/04/11/t...

I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...

- 32,809 have been arrested by Ice during Trump 2.
- German tourist Jessica Brösche spent more than a month in detention, including eight days in solitary confinement, suffering one of the worst human rights violations
- Rebecca Burke (UK) was trying to leave but was detained for 19 (!) days

Signatures still being collected and will be published by AAUP on Tuesday.

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Massive turnout in solidarity with Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student who was abducted from a Somerville street by Trump’s government - Somerville stands with Rumeysa

I really don't care much what anyone thinks the exact right label is to describe where we are. This is outrageous and acutely dangerous. They are disappearing people in broad daylight for nothing but political speech. If this isn't a frontal assault on the rule of law and free democracy, what is?

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

the us academic sector is genuinely never going to recover from the current assault on its every institution and the third rate bean counters who entrusted themselves with running the universities don't care at best because they read too many the atlantic think pieces about the oberlin cafeteria

Excited to be giving a little talk about my contractors and their contracts alongside the formidable @lisaaht.bsky.social as part of @lch-law-cult-hum.bsky.social's lunchtime Zoom sessions! Join us Wed at 12pm ET: lawculturehumanities.com/event/zoom-s...

ACSA cancels Fall 2025 Journal of Architectural Education issue about Palestine and fires its interim executive editor ACSA announced this afternoon it has cancelled a forthcoming JAE edition about Palestine. The Fall 2025 issue was planned to be edited by Cruz Garcia, Nora Akawi, Omar Jabary Salamanca, Zoé Samudzi, a...

Absolutely shameful

Deadline this Friday!! 💸

Also included: a reading list from the fantastic 2024 Costs of Architecture reading seminar!

Costs of Architecture Summer 2025 Workshops • Call for Abstracts THE COSTS OF ARCHITECTURE NETWORKSUMMER 2025 WORKSHOPSCALL FOR ABSTRACTS Deadline: February 21, 2025 The Costs of Architecture Network is pleased to announce a call for paper abstracts for a series ...

Hello #skystorians, architectural and otherwise! Are you working on anything related to architecture/built enviro + costs, money, value, quantities, political economy, etc? Propose it for the new 🤑 Costs of Architecture Workshop 🤑 !

Details: tinyurl.com/CoA-workshop...

Deadline: >>Feb 21<<

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